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CJSF 90.1 FM and The Jazz Spectrum are pleased to announce the winner of this year's Julian Award of Excellence for Emerging Canadian Jazz Artists: Sam Kirmayer, for his album Opening Statement.
The Cole Birney-Stewart Sextet are runners-up! Congratulations to everyone who was nominated for the Julian Awards in 2018.
Listen to this past Sunday's (Jan. 21) episode of the Jazz Spectrum to hear...

CJSF 90.1 FM and The Jazz Spectrum are pleased to announce the nominees for the 7th annual Julian Award of Excellence for Emerging Canadian Jazz Artists, known simply as The Julian Award.
The Julian Award recognizes and promotes young and emerging Canadian jazz musicians who have created original work. The nominees for 2018 are:
Cole Birney-Stewart Sextet (Vancouver, Montreal) – “Champlain...

It's that time of year again: FM Party time! On December 1, SFU's campus-community radio station CJSF 90.1 FM will return to the Astoria (769 East Hastings Street, Vancouver) for its fifth straight year to celebrate 14 years at 90.1 FM and over half a century at SFU.
Come see a diverse selection of Vancouver's most exciting performing artists - groove to the R&B and hip-hop stylings of...

Celebrate ten years of talks and discussions by Vancouver's most interesting people at Interesting Vancouver 2017, an annual celebration of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Interesting Vancouver brings together ten speakers from different walks of life speaking for ten minutes apiece, showcasing their passions, telling interesting stories and sparking dialogues, all in a relaxed and...

The 17th annual Vancouver Media Democracy Day, organized by the Simon Fraser University School of Communication, will be a showcase and networking zone for journalists, scholars, technologists, entrepreneurs, activists – anyone interested in media and social change.
Media Democracy Day 2017 opens at 10am on Nov. 18 at the downtown Vancouver Public Library (350 West Georgia Street) and will run...

Pride in Art is excited to open Canada’s first dedicated queer art gallery. Building on the acclaimed Queer Arts Festival, this new space will allow Pride in Art to bring more groundbreaking multidisciplinary programming to Vancouver.
To fund the gallery renovations, Pride in Art is running a crowdfunding campaign, Bling Us, from Nov. 1 to Dec. 1, 2017. Your contribution will make it possible...

Now in its sixth year, the 2017 Vancouver Art Book Fair (VABF) will take place from Oct. 13-15 at the Vancouver Art Gallery Annex (750 Hornby Street), capping off the Artist's Books Week (running Oct. 9-15), a parallel series of events hosted in spaces across Vancouver by a variety of publishers, artists, collectives and institutions across the city who are actively creating and presenting work...

The 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival is coming Sepember 28 and will run until October 13! Featuring over 300 films from BC, Canada and the world, the 2017 Vancouver Film Festival now features new Films+ programming: Creator Talks and the VIFF LIVE concert series. It's a lineup not to be missed!
CJSF and the Vancouver International Film Festival are proud to co-present Elle-Máijá...

From September 21 to 24, LiterASIAN 2017 highlights Asian-Canadian literature, history and culture. Centred around the theme of "Storytelling and the Art of the Novel," this year's festival will feature award-winning authors Leslie Shimotakahara, Terry Watada, Eleanor Guerrero-Campbell, Leanne Dunic, Julia Lin, Jen Sookfong Lee, and Catherine Hernandez, who will all hold book launches on...